The September issue of Commentary Magazine (not yet online) includes a response by William Kristol to Norman Podhoretz’s complaint that Jews are liberals (in Podhoretz’s forthcoming book, Why Are Jews Liberals? Commentary’s editor, John Podhoretz, is giving his father’s book a nepotistic shove). Kristol’s response is far more forthcoming about religion than he usually is, for instance when he was a columnist for the New York Times. He believes, as I have reported before, that Jews should stop worrying about maintaining American Jewish support for Israel, and seek support for Israel in other American places. He says that Jews should revive Jewish religious observance among those Jews who care about Judaism. I.e., give up on the unaffiliated, and the assimilationists.
Kristol suggests in this piece that Israel is the heart and soul of Jewish life. "Instead of focusing on the attitude of American Jews toward Israel, why not focus on the attitude of all Americans toward Israel? The important things are for the practice and study of Judaism to become more vital, in America and elsewhere, and for the state of Israel to remain strong and secure."
I.e., more Jewish day schools. Not a word about apartheid or the destruction of idealism in Israel. No, Kristol is a conservative, in the blindered, parochial mode.
I’m burying the lead. In talking about the 2008 election, Kristol says that 80 percent of Jews shrugged off "all the information about Obama’s coolness toward Israel and McCain’s strong support for the Jewish state, and voted for Obama."
This is Kristol’s only consideration of the election, really. And it reminds us, that for Kristol and for so many other neocons, all that matters in a presidential candidate is his/her stance on Israel. (Yes, and why did the neocons push the Iraq war?) This is the essence of dual loyalty, a belief that Israel’s interests are identical with the U.S.’s, or should continue to be regarded as such by the powers that be. Kristol was a Times columnist all last year. He was never so frank then about what really matters. That’s another big problem with the Israel-firsters, subterfuge. The mainstream press can be blamed for failing to report on what was the hidden tension in last year’s presidential race, and one that continues to put great pressure on Obama.
Kristol, and his ilk, should move to Israel.
Kristol and ilk are all about using the USA as the underwriter for the Jewish insurance contract that is Israel. No matter how high the premiums go, the USA must pay them without complaint.
This comes as no surprise to anyone who followed Schmuel Rosner’s The Israel Factor at Ha’aretz during the election season. link to haaretz.com
Essentially it was a running weekly poll on the question: Which US Presidential candidate is best for Israel, with “good for Israel” being defined along the lines of “Bomb, Bomb Iran.”
RE: “Jews should stop worrying about maintaining American Jewish support for Israel, and seek support for Israel in other American places.”
MY COMMENTS: Other American places? Like the dominionist “Pastor” John Hagee and his ilk? Talk about a death wish!
DOMINIONISM – link to en.wikipedia.org
But all good people will be saved in the End Times. Meanwhile, let’s kick camel jockey ass to prepare for the rapture. Must be fun to have gentile helpers to afford you your
nice Jewish life style when you pay them back by merely not laughing in their faces when
they babble about their Kingdom To Come, their Pie In The Sky.
Kristol’s attitude reminds me of a comment I found once of a site called MoonBattery (dot com). It went like this:
(link provided on request)
But remember that Kristol’s neoconservatism is itself a form of leftism.
Neocon means a lefty except for Israel. It all started with Scoop Jackson and ended up with Lieberman and his wife, what a lovely American couple akin to Abe and his wife…
It’s all leftist, Citizen. Neoconservatism is an outgrowth of Cold War liberal internationalism, which was an alliance between Trotskyite Jews like Irving Kristol and CIA-connected WASPs. Liberal internationalism and later neoconservatism were allowed to mask themselves as conservatism thanks to CIA alum William Buckley, who famously accepted leftism in the US in order to fight leftism in the Soviet Union. I’m sure you know Buckley’s National Review was dominated by Jews from the beginning, and made its special task to shame Catholics out of their “anti-Semitism” (realism about Jews). Buckley eventually turned on his fellow Catholics Sobran and Buchanan, and the Jews tossed their WASP allies to the curb. Now all that’s left are the leftist neocons of WSJ and NRO and the leftist neolibs of NYT and TNR, Zionist internationalists to a one.
And the End Timers? Shrub to Hagee?